every so often a one time password thing will say like "don't EVER SHARE THIS PASSWORD" and i'm just wondering like

could you actually reverse engineer one of those OTP key fobs and start predicting what codes it'll generate if you had enough prior time/password data to feed in

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@kat i suspect it would probably be possible
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